Intel Arc A580 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8GB
            Intel Arc A580
            
                $179
            
        
    
            NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8GB
            
                $329
            
        
    | 3072 Shaders 6GB GDDR6 2000MHz | 3584 Shaders 8GB GDDR6 1777MHz | 
| Peak AI Performance 393.22 TOPS INT4 Tensor | Peak AI Performance 407.6 TOPS INT4 Tensor Sparse | 
| FP32 12.29 TFLOPS | FP32 12.74 TFLOPS | 
| FP16 24.58 TFLOPS | FP16 12.74 TFLOPS | 
| Form Factor PCIe Card 2.0-Slots | Form Factor PCIe Card - | 
| TDP 185W | TDP 170W | 
| - - - - - | Power Connectors - - 1x 12-Pin - | 
| GB6 OpenCL N/A 0% | |
| GB6 Metal N/A 0% | GB6 Metal N/A 0% | 
| GB6 Vulkan N/A 0% | 
| GB5 OpenCL N/A 0% | GB5 OpenCL N/A 0% | 
| GB5 CUDA N/A 0% | GB5 CUDA N/A 0% | 
| GB5 Metal N/A 0% | GB5 Metal N/A 0% | 
| GB5 Vulkan N/A 0% | GB5 Vulkan N/A 0% | 
| OCT 2020.1 N/A 0% | OCT 2020.1 N/A 0% | 
| OCT Metal N/A 0% | OCT Metal N/A 0% | 
| Peak AI
                                            Performance 
                                            393.22 TOPS
                                         
                                            INT4 Tensor
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                                            407.6 TOPS
                                         
                                            INT4 Tensor Sparse
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                                            FP16
                                         
                                            24.58 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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                                            98.3 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            FP16
                                         
                                            12.74 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
                                            50.95 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor (FP16 Accumulate)
                                            
                                         
                                            101.9 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor (FP16 Accumulate) Sparse
                                            
                                         
                                            25.48 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor (FP32 Accumulate)
                                            
                                         
                                            50.95 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor (FP32 Accumulate) Sparse
                                            
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                                            FP32
                                         
                                            12.29 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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                                            12.74 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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                                            FP64
                                         
                                            3.07 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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                                            FP64
                                         
                                            200 GFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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                                            98.3 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            12.74 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
                                            25.48 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            50.95 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            12.74 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor
                                            
                                         
                                            25.48 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            INT4
                                         
                                            393.22 TOPS
                                            
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                                            INT4
                                         
                                            203.8 TOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor
                                            
                                         
                                            407.6 TOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor Sparse
                                            
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                                            196.61 TOPS
                                            
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                                            INT8
                                         
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                                            101.9 TOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor
                                            
                                         
                                            203.8 TOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor Sparse
                                            
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                                            INT32
                                         
                                            6.37 TOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
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                                            Ray Tracing
                                         
                                            19.2 TOPS
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| Pixel
                                            Fillrate 
                                            192 GPixel/s
                                         | Pixel
                                            Fillrate 
                                            85.296 GPixel/s
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| Texture
                                            Fillrate 
                                            384 GTexel/s
                                         | Texture
                                            Fillrate 
                                            199.024 GTexel/s
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| ManufacturerIntel | ManufacturerNVIDIA | 
| Chip DesignerIntel | Chip DesignerNVIDIA | 
| ArchitectureAlchemist | ArchitectureAmpere | 
| FamilyArc A | FamilyGeForce 30 | 
| Codename Xe HPG ACM-G10 Variant DG2-512 | Codename NV176 GA106 Variant GA106-302 | 
| Market Segment Desktop | Market Segment Desktop | 
| Release Date 10/10/2023 | Release Date 10/27/2022 | 
| Foundry TSMC - | Foundry Samsung - | 
| Fabrication Node N6 - | Fabrication Node 8N - | 
| Die Size 406 mm² - | Die Size 276 mm² - | 
| Transistor Count 21.7 Billion - | Transistor Count 13.3 Billion - | 
| Transistor Density 53.45M/mm² - | Transistor Density 48.01M/mm² - | 
| Form PCIe Card | Form PCIe Card | 
| Shading Units 3072 Shaders - | Shading Units 3584 Shaders - | 
| Texture Mapping Units 192 TMUs | Texture Mapping Units 112 TMUs | 
| Render Output Units 96 ROPs | Render Output Units 48 ROPs | 
| Tensor Cores 384 T-Cores | Tensor Cores 112 T-Cores | 
| Ray-Tracing Cores 24 RT-Cores | Ray-Tracing Cores 28 RT-Cores | 
| - - | Streaming Multiprocessors 28 SMs | 
| - - | - - | 
| Execution Units 384 EUs | - - | 
| Graphics Processing Clusters 24 GPCs | Graphics Processing Clusters 3 GPCs | 
| - - 1700MHz Base 2000MHz | - - 1320MHz Base 1777MHz | 
| - - | - - | 
| L1 - - - Unknown | L1 64KB/SM Tex 128KB/SM - - | 
| L2 8MB Shared | L2 2MB Shared | 
| - - - | - - - | 
| 6GB GDDR6 - | 8GB GDDR6 - | 
| Bus Width 96Bit | Bus Width 128Bit | 
| Clock 1938MHz Transfer Rate 15.5GT/s Bandwidth 186GB/s | Clock 1875MHz Transfer Rate 15GT/s Bandwidth 240GB/s | 
| - - - - - - - - - | - - - - - - - - - | 
| TDP 185W | TDP 170W | 
| - - | - - | 
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3x DisplayPort 2.0 - - - - - - - - - - 1x HDMI 2.1 - - | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3x DisplayPort 1.4 - - - - - - - - - - - 1x HDMI 2.1 - - | 
| Max Resolution 7680x4320 | Max Resolution 7680x4320 | 
| Max Resolution Refresh Rate 60Hz | Max Resolution Refresh Rate 60Hz | 
| Variable Refresh Rate - FreeSync - | Variable Refresh Rate G-Sync FreeSync - | 
| Display Stream Compression (DSC) Not Supported | Display Stream Compression (DSC) Supported | 
| Multi Monitor Support 4 | Multi Monitor Support 3 | 
| - - | Content Protection HDCP 2.3 | 
| Model Arc | Model NVENC 7 | 
| Codec - - - - - - - - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - AV1 - - | Codec - - - - - - - - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - - - - | 
| Model Arc | Model NVDEC 5 | 
| Codec - MPEG-2 - JPEG - - VP9 - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - AV1 - - | Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 - VC-1 VP8 VP9 - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - AV1 - - | 
| Direct X 12 Direct 3D 12_2 | Direct X 12 Direct 3D 12_2 | 
| OpenGL 4.6 OpenCL 3.0 Vulkan 1.3 | OpenGL 4.6 OpenCL 3.0 Vulkan 1.2 | 
| Shader Model 6.6 - - - - - - - - | Shader Model 6.6 CUDA 8.6 - - PureVideo HD VP11 VDPAU Feature Set K | 
| - - - 1x Fan | Not a Card - - 2x Fans | 
| - - - - - - - - | Power Connectors - - - - - 1x 12-Pin - | 
| Slots Required 2.0 PCIe Version 4.0 PCIe Lanes 16 | - - PCIe Version 4.0 PCIe Lanes 16 | 
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